The other two stories are the most curious. Meanwhile she reluctantly lets her family get her engaged to a nice, well-to-do Hindi boy, who tells her he wants their home to be so comfortable she’ll never have to set foot outside it. Her open desire for him leads to several sex scenes where she takes the lead, even filming one of them on her phone to use as blackmail in case he ever decides to dump her. Leela ( Aahana Kumra), an ambitious beautician, offers herself as a bridal consultant in tandem with her Muslim photographer boyfriend Arshad. She tolerates his loveless love-making with gritted teeth, but hides from him the fact she’s earning good money as a door-to-door saleswoman.She rightly suspects he won’t approve.
Konkona Sen Sharma plays the warm, enterprising Shirin, a young mother of three whose husband has recently returned from working abroad. They hail from small-town India, depicted as a dusty palimpsest of time-worn back alleys and courtyards. * International Federation of Film Producers Associations is an international organization which improves or reviews issues of the world’s film industry and international film festivals.Writer-director Shrivastava, whose first feature was the girl-loses-boy tale Turning 30!!!, casts her net wide to include four Indian women of different ages and backgrounds. The festival provides opportunities for people in the film industry and film enthusiasts to encounter great films from all over the world shown in Asia’s film capital Tokyo. TIFF, which marks its 29th year, is the only international film festival in Japan accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.* Starting in 1985, as the first large film festival of the country, it has made a significant mark on the film and entertainment industry of Japan and Asia and has grown to Asia’s largest film festival. Philip Cheah (Film Critic) Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) In the process, the film challenges us to enjoy the pain and suffer the joy. I really believe that the Spirit of Asia is the spirit to build peace across different countries in Asia regardless of the differences, and I really feel that the women of Asia particularly should come together to build a more peaceful Asia and even to the world.įor its daring blend of comedy and serious drama, dream and reality, and truth or dare Lipstick Under My Burkha's stylistic duality mirrors the doubles lives that the female characters are forced to lead. Messages from the winner and the jury of The Spirit of Asia Award Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) (C) m-appealĪn innovative film depicting the secret acts of rebellion committed by four Indian women, including an oppressed housewife and a burkha-clad college girl.
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